User blog comment:AJP27/Nine Things I'd Like to See in a/the Future Game(s)/@comment-6769189-20150227202748/@comment-26082987-20150228180554

In regard to your commentary on my first point, I'd like to clarify a few things that you misunderstood. I never said Vergil was an altruistic nor did I say that I wanted him to become a straight hero who fights for Humanity if he should return to life (again IF) and if anything I'd like him to be a villain protagonist, perhaps even as a Byronic Hero who lives by his own set of ethics. Also, if you missed the fifth point, I stated that I would want him to be resurrected to be in the service of some new antagonist (but secretly fighting to free himself of said new villain so that he can continue his own goals), thus leaving him remaining in an antagonistic role to Dante and his associates.

For full disclosure, I'll admit that Classic Vergil is my favorite DMC character period because of his Byronic/Ubermensch nature that he has and his defiant attitude towards Humanity that says, to quote Samuel L. Jackson in the film A Time to Kill, "YES THEY DESERVE TO DIE AND I HOPE THAT THEY BURN IN HELL! (cue dramatic music)!". (On a more serious note, Humans are the worst creatures we know of in existence because what other beings have ever exploited, enslaved, committed genocide on each other, nor do all the above and then worse of all rationalize such actions (e.g. via religion, jingoistic political ideologies)). And yes, I consider myself a misanthrope, but one of the Jonathon Swift variety). I see Vergil as something along the lines of Demona from Gargoyles and, to a lesser extents, Magneto from X-men and Shinobu Sensui from YuYu Hakusho. So I hope you understand where I'm coming from in regards to how I interpret Vergil's character.